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2011-12 season review ~
Last August QPR crumbled to a 4-0 home defeat to Bolton in our first
Premier League game in 15 years. Had anyone told us then that nine
months later we would be relegating the same opponents by a single
point, hands would have been bitten off. Far from the apparent happy
ending of the film documentary on the club, The Four Year Plan, Neil
Warnock had waited all summer for investment. But when it became
apparent none was forthcoming, he was forced to reshape the squad from
largely uninspiring free transfers and out-of-contract players.

Within
days of that opening defeat, Tony Fernandes had taken over the club and
turned it on its head, ushering in a spirit of openness far removed
from the arrogant behaviour of the previous regime. He refunded fans
that had paid over-inflated season ticket prices and offered the
financial support that allowed first Warnock, and later Mark Hughes, to
sign the players that ultimately made the difference.

By the time
Hughes was installed in January, and had got to grips with the wildly
varied personalities and ability levels at the club, it took an almighty
run of five final home victories against the likes of Liverpool,
Arsenal and Spurs, to see us safe.

Against that, our away record
was the worst in the division � despite the unlikely heroics of ten men
leading until injury-time at Manchester City on the final day � and our
nine sendings off equalled Sunderland�s Premier record.

Hughes's
name is yet to really ring around Loftus Road, but the signings of
Djibril Ciss� and Samba Diakit�, allied to the extra potential the
manager squeezed out of Adel Taarabt (making him add effort to his
technique), and Jamie Mackie (vice-versa), have slowly brought people
around to the idea that he is doing things properly.

The
restoring to the side at centre-back of eventual Player of the Year
Clint Hill (an unlikely scenario when he was shipped out to Nottingham
Forest on loan in the autumn), was just as important.

Eight
senior professionals have been moved on from a bloated squad since the
end of the season. Other other peripheral players may find themselves
surplus to requirements if Hughes can strengthen further, as would seem
likely.

Erstwhile captain Joey Barton, facing a 12-game ban, is
another whose future at QPR, and possibly in the game, is presently in
some doubt. Few tears are likely to be shed if he is not seen around the
place again.

At least this summer the manager is being given
preparation time and will not find the support of the board wanting.
Hughes�s steely-eyed assessment after the City game that the club would
not find itself in the same trouble again while he was in charge was
welcomed. Right now, optimism in Shepherd's Bush is higher than it has
been in many a year. Jamie Sellers http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/8635/38/